Jenna Fox Character Analysis

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Raw emotions are what make us human. Love for someone or an activity is shown through passion, mourning over the loss of a family member or being badly injured is shown through intense pain, and the celebration of a birthday or other important holiday by joy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox, authored by Mary E. Pearson, depicts the life, emotions and actions of Jenna Fox, a girl who, through science, miraculously survived a horrific car accident. As a result of the damage she suffered, Jenna is unable to remember events, significant people, or surroundings in her life prior to the incident. Being that a large amount of her body is synthetic and she has trouble interacting with others in a normal fashion, Jenna begins to questions her identity and whether she is still human or not. Regardless of how much machinery one is made of, an individual such as …show more content…

Tired of the many lectures from her parents, Jenna decides to temporarily leave her home and retreat to a nearby forest. While traveling through the woods, she is surprised by classmate Dane’s presence, who very forcefully approaches and attempts to assault her in a sexual manner. Fortunately, Jenna resists, and disgusted at his inhumane actions toward her, claims that Dane showed “‘Me how empty a one hundred percent human being can be. Percentages can be deceptive’" (Pearson 216). Dane, although fully flesh and blood, expresses very little-if any-empathy or concern for others people well being, as clearly showed in his effort to rape Jenna. In contrast is Jenna, who is more of a machine externally, but has proven to be a caring, good hearted being who is full of emotion even after the traumatizing accident she was involved in. The fact that Dane is able to show far less human like emotions than Jenna, whom has mostly cells developed in a lab authenticates she should and is classified as a

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